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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close January 14 – January 21, 2009 166 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 04 · Issue 21 Get it by email ↓
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How to create a profitable Freemium startup (spreadsheet model included)

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Business 10 stories

  1. How to create a profitable Freemium startup (spreadsheet model included)

  2. More startups fail from a lack of customers than from a failure of product development

  3. Full-Time Startup: Skribit Week 2

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  1. Fuck college education, start minding your own business instead

  2. Skype legend Morten Lund bankrupt

  3. Morgan Stanley Hires Supertanker to Store Oil in Gulf

  4. ChaCha CEO Has Pretty Damn Sweet 8-Monitor Computer

Sports 6 stories

  1. Heyzap Vies To Become A YouTube For Flash Games (YC W09)

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  1. Ruby Warrior: Coding game designed to teach Ruby and A.I.

  2. Coding Horror Strikes Again (RE: Windows 7 UI)

  3. Google Closes Offices in in Austin, Texas; Trondheim, Norway; and Lulea, Sweden.

Technology 137 stories

  1. Why Google Employees Quit

  2. Joel Spolsky: Thanks or No Thanks

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  1. The 37signals Effect

  2. Lazy Linux: essential tricks for admins

  3. Apple: Jobs to Take Medical Leave of Absence

  4. Ever wonder what the Wikipedia database schema looks like?

  5. My Git Workflow

Entertainment 5 stories

  1. Hulu CEO: "We screwed up royally"

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  1. Noteflight: start-up that lets you compose music within your browser

  2. Ask HN: Would you fund this show?

  3. Videos show US Air crash-landing

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